I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

History is more or less bunk.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

History should be written as philosophy.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.